Paul Huebler
Paul Huebler has to be one of the most underated cuemakers ever.
Paul Huebler has to be one of the most underated cuemakers ever.
Most Under Rated Cue Company
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Well, if Paul is back in business...that is news to me. Last I had talked to him he sold all his equipment/ referred all his repair business to another dealer up north ( Someone in WI I think) he shut down his website and we completely sold out of most his cues. We have one or two basic Hueblers in stock right now. It was one of the best cues out there. I still have my ASH3 I got in College when they were $60. Stainless joint, Mahogany handle. Still straight and still plays well. I wish Paul were 20 years younger and still making them. I would have a case full of them. If he decided to start up again...good for him.
Could it be related to a BSA 441 Victor ???
Robert Weir Cues
I bought one of these cues that the poolroom owner reccomended to me, when all the craze in the mid-80's was having a Mcdermott, Meucci, Joss. Weir was a good cue and Bob was local. I heard they were really Mali or Adams cues with his name on them,LOL! I forget. They played pretty good though... Back In The Day!
Agreed. Mezz easily out classes every other production cue company on the market.
Just don't take the bumper off, all the Rice will fall out and you will never be able to balance those cues again!!!!!!!!!!:joyful::wink2::rotflmao1::lol::rotflmao::yeah::yeah::welcome:
Right, because everything made in America is great and everything made in Asia is junk. Just look at the auto industry!
Anyway, my vote goes to Pechauer.
Underated cues
Underated....
Adams thru 1990
Huebler
Pechauer
Viking
Lucasi/Players
Jacoby
Original Ray Schulers
Overated...
Predator(nice name for a marketing company but a cuemaker?)
Mezz(made by Adams BUT OVERPRICED)
Schon(just never liked their vibrating hit. If I wanted to play with a tuning fork I'd buy one)
Meucci(find one without a popped/raised inlay)
I am sure I'll get screams over my overated list but I can live with it!
Right, because everything made in America is great and everything made in Asia is junk. Just look at the auto industry!
Anyway, my vote goes to Pechauer.
Underated....
Adams thru 1990
Huebler
Pechauer
Viking
Lucasi/Players
Jacoby
Original Ray Schulers
Overated...
Predator(nice name for a marketing company but a cuemaker?)
Mezz(made by Adams BUT OVERPRICED)
Schon(just never liked their vibrating hit. If I wanted to play with a tuning fork I'd buy one)
Meucci(find one without a popped/raised inlay)
I am sure I'll get screams over my overated list but I can live with it!
Yep... mezz gets my vote too
In a forum where:
made in the USA = good and made in China = bad
and
Custom = good and production = bad
Then I think that Lucasi is probably is the most under rated cue.
The quality of these cues went up so much in the last few years and they play pretty good, that I'll take a Lucasi over a Viking or a McDermott.
Mezz is another maker that is very under rated in the USA, but they make in the same quality of Schon, Jacoby and Pechauer.
made in the USA = good and made in China = bad
and
Custom = good and production = bad
Then I think that Lucasi is probably is the most under rated cue.
The quality of these cues went up so much in the last few years and they play pretty good, that I'll take a Lucasi over a Viking or a McDermott.
Mezz is another maker that is very under rated in the USA, but they make in the same quality of Schon, Jacoby and Pechauer.
You beat me to it Jay.
I have a first generation with the gold lettering. Very sweet.
if we are talking production i would say pechauer and adams.
if we are talking customs i gotta throw bob frey out there.
if we are talking customs i gotta throw bob frey out there.
As far as production I would have to say Poison (I think they are made by predator. They are ugly as hell but play pretty well) and definitely Huebler and Viking.
As far as Bob Frey being an underrated custom cue maker I don't think that he is underrated at all. He makes a hell of a cue and I don't know of many people that would argue otherwise or say that he is "underrated" JMHO
As far as Bob Frey being an underrated custom cue maker I don't think that he is underrated at all. He makes a hell of a cue and I don't know of many people that would argue otherwise or say that he is "underrated" JMHO
Right, because everything made in America is great and everything made in Asia is junk. Just look at the auto industry!
Anyway, my vote goes to Pechauer.
Right, because everything made in America is great and everything made in Asia is junk.
Wrong, they fill the cues with Rice to help absorb and lower the Mositure content I the wood, the same reason you put Rice in a Salt shaker to absorb water.!@
You don't have to have an expensive cue to run balls, you have an expensive cue because you want to own it and in some cases make a little money if it goes up in value (example: the players who bought Gus Szamboti and Balabuska cues when they were still being made and not priced out of sight like they are today).
James
Right, because everything made in America is great and everything made in Asia is junk. Just look at the auto industry!
Anyway, my vote goes to Pechauer.
I agree on that...them people are union and are WAYYYYY overpaid....like a friend of mine that installs radios on new Cadillacs...he installs all his radios in about 15 miinutes....and sits for 45 minutes and still gets paid.....WAYYY overpaid and underworked....
I wonder what happened to my old buddy Bob Weir. Anyone know? He was one of the first (Helmstetter beat him by a decade or two) to discover that good cues could be made overseas for a better price. He imported them and added his name to them. They were good cues that sold for resonable prices, in the $100-200 range.